NVIDIA DLSS 5 Pisses Off Everyone - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.17.26

29:40Andy Cortez:Agreed. 100%. Maze of Albion says in line with you, let the artist create the art. That's what makes art special. Fuck AI. It's ruining culture and depriving the world of intelligence and creativity. There's this one I want to toss in. Anakin pops in and says it's fine for backgrounds and objects, but human faces go into the uncanny valley territory. Worse than Leia in Rogue One. And again, to talk about this being in the toolbox to be used, right? That's where I could see it being super helpful. If it gets locked in, if it gets worked, there's a million ifs here. And again, we're going off of tech demos that again, did not show well and would not be how I would have done it.

30:19Andy Cortez:But to the point here of like, if you pause here, Kev, of yes, Grace, no, I do not want this. I don't like that. But to talk about the backgrounds and to talk about the motion in the overhang here on the cigarettes and what, like that shit looks good. Can they actually maintain that in the game and et cetera, et cetera. Who the fuck knows? And there's another one here, right, of them talking about needing... You're all super chatting too much. I love you. Aaron Lime says, the fact that they had to use two 5090s to run these, one for the game and one for the filter, is just obnoxious. The AI literally trains on porn for women's faces, so it's misogynistic.

30:57Yeah, that is a very sort of biased thing where we, you know, that one famous image of blurry face Obama, and they say, hey, AI, what does his face look like? and it immediately became like a darker skinned white man's face because they're just sort of like that. There's that inherent bias with the internet and data scraping and the internet images. I put out another Lincoln assets as well, Kevin,

31:19Andy Cortez:because I'm sorry, before we go further, but what I'm the point I'm making here is again, to your point, is anyone ever going to use this? I'm sure someone will, of course, yada, yada, yada, but to talk about the fact of, okay, what if you were able to use this to make the other shit look better or whatever to make backgrounds run better. NPCs, there was another one in here again. And so many super chats. Thank you so much. Talking about how good the crowds looked in the soccer versus what you were seeing from the actual people. Sorry. I guess the crowds at soccer, I didn't really notice a whole lot of it.

31:46Just, I just kept seeing floating face, but we have another example here. This is from a digital found you's video. When I first saw all of this stuff sort of pop off. And I like my, my problem with the way some of the environments look is that a lot of the environment shots being shown. I'm like, Oh, I like the game more there. I like the game more here. A lot of that just comes down to taste. But like when I see the DLSS 5 filter on, I still can't help but seeing a flat PNG of a building that's just kind of like changing its angle based on how I'm looking. And that's just my brain. But like, you know, this dude has a shadow casted on him when a DLSS is off.

32:27And then when you turn it on, all of that stuff disappears. And it's like, here's what we think a human kind of looks like with these proportions. because Dark Elves don't exist or whatever don't exist in real life. So we're just going to put a human's face proportions to the way that your 3D model looks. It just looks off. It doesn't look great. I like the way I think Oblivion is a beautiful game. Oblivion Remastered really, really popped off. Our team really kicked ass. And I think it looks awesome with it off. And there's shots with Adama. I'm like, yeah, I do kind of like the way that looks.

33:00But for the most part, I just sort of fail to see. Well, I don't fail to see. It's investors and you need to keep pushing for more. And that's always going to be the answer whenever we talk about why even do this. Well, because you can't stagnate. And that's just the sad fact of it all. You can't stagnate in this industry. If you start to slow down, investors go, oh, maybe I'm losing faith in you. I'm going to drop. And then there's reports that NVIDIA stock is falling. We got to keep it.

33:27Andy Cortez:I mean, everything, all the money in this industry right now is going to AI, right? So you've got to keep trying to push in and act like AI is something we all want, need. It's going to make our games incredibly better. He looks worse. He looks demonstrably worse than what we just fucking thought. Shout out to Will Neff making a great appearance in this video. Shout out to Will Neff. He's awesome. But like this shot is another one that really bothered me. and I saw a great post about it saying, you know, cool, it kind of just looks like a cosplayer in front of a bunch of iPhone, like, Photoshop's.

34:01Yeah, yeah. And, again, these filters are just being applied, in my opinion, at a, you know, they're just turning them on. Yeah. There's no discrimination. They're just like, bam, how does this area look with it on? And that takes away, like, the fog in the background that was artfully put there by people. this thing this area being darker to kind of occlude the you know the player's vision or whatever i hate the way this looks when it's this sort of you know bird's eye view or whatever i to me it kind of just looks like way better off here it looks like a weird google photos like and again though we want ourself to be more realistic i guess we do but my brain just tells me that there's something off here and when i look at the way a lot of these shots look like with DLSS 5 on, to me, it just looks like whenever you are composing an environmental shot and you have like, on this plane, we'll have this bunch of trees.

34:54And on this plane, we'll have that bunch of trees. And it looks like just a bunch of kind of flat. Again, we are looking at a YouTube upload of a compressed video of a TV screen on the wall or whatever, courtesy of Digital Foundry's video. But a lot of those shots just don't look great to me. could they look better with more tuning of course everything can look better with more artist tuning but for the most part it feels kind of disappointing and I suspect that when this comes out in fall get ready to see a whole lot of fucking really bad steam next fest demos in March or whatever like we're about to see some real gross looking shit out there and I'm kind of excited for it

35:39Andy Cortez:gotta say it's really turning me on to your point earlier you're making I want to try to get as many super chats in as I can as we make the point so many people are just doing the same stuff and I love you for that thank you very much Jameson says nobody wants AI face changes DLSS 5 what we want is more affordability and bigger uplift per generation generational uplift has stalled lately and I think it's back to what you're talking about of trying to stoke these fires and we have to have something new we have to do something else with this what can we do you go put this in here I want to end on this one because we still have a lot more show to go even though we've done 40 minutes on this for story number one.

36:12Andy Cortez:Jordan says, what I want to know is now that you have more information on what the tech is doing and that it's not just a filter, do you feel any different to your initial reaction, Andy, of Yuck? And do you think that optics will change over time like they have with all the other DLSS features? Optics never changed over time with me with the other DLSS stuff. And I know you could hit me right back. Yeah, well, you're sponsored. Wait, so did you like the old DLSS or didn't like the old DLSS? Oh, I loved it. Yeah, just make sure. For somebody who's new who doesn't understand what's going on. Yeah, but I mean, we legitimately love that.

36:46The reason why NVIDIA reached out to us was because of my enthusiasm for all of it and getting really into digital foundry. And on my hard drive, I have so many like before and after images of graphics that are like he does of like just here's what this looks like without. And I never post them because I just like make it in my free time hoping to one day post them. Like, I love this shit. I love tech. I was never one of the naysayers. I was always like, this shit rocks. This is insane that you're able to get this performance out of these visuals when normally that shit's just not possible. Do I expect public sentiment to sway on it?

37:21I think depending on how it's used, I think DLSS 5 could come out and nobody touches it. And we're just going to get better performance. And hopefully my games don't touch it. And then we just still benefit from more frames, better CPU performance or whatever. yeah but man like oh that just looks like just such a it just looks like a flat png just like being moved around it's just so awkward looking um to the other part of the question which was now that i have a better idea of how the tech works i still need to see it in action because what what i'm being told how the tech works isn't fooling my eyes yeah like you could tell me how the tech works you could tell me that there's no filter this is you could tell me there's no So, yeah, like to me, my eyes see you are pulling from neural networks of.

38:11AI approximations of what human faces look like in certain situations. Yeah. My brain looks at that and says, I don't like the way that looks. And you can't change that. You can maybe lessen it and try to lessen the impact by maybe even here. Dialing those sliders or whatever. What are we talking about? We're off. Looks better. It looks more real than this. I mean, it's not even just like a realism thing. It's also like an artist in the artist's intent, the light being placed in certain spots. Again, this is just them hitting that fucking button on and saying, go buck wild. But I hate the way it just like automatically brightens everything up.

38:51I hate that everything looks like you put it into, like when you take a photo of somebody and you hit the little magic wand button at the bottom, it looks like everything got that treatment from your cell phone's photo editor where you just hit the magic wand button and it's like boom perfect contrast perfect lighting perfect luminance all that that's what it kind of looks like and it it just looks it looks faking off to me and you know i if you disagree everybody's got different tastes you know like i mentioned earlier with the whole you know people on on on facebook posting darth maul in in fucking avatar that you know the kid laughing at the jingling keys.

39:32I love this stuff. That stuff looks awful to me. And so does the majority of what's happening with the faces here.

39:39Andy Cortez:Yeah. To Jordan's question, I think just to close on this, right? Like, do you think optics will change over time? Like they have, we'll wait and see. Like, I mean, again, like I'm coming at it from complete gamer perspective. I'm not an artist. I've never made a game yet. This is in the toolbox. Let's see how people use it. And if they make games that look garbagey or that you can even run them or if they find a cool way to use it and to use it in a way that doesn't betray their artists and do all these different things yada yada for me this comes down to cool this exists now there's no way to stop that prove it prove that it's cool use it in a way that i go damn that is better right where it's i mean look at me playing so many games on my pc now because i'm like yeah fuck this actually works now and is great i'm getting better experience off of this like that's how it is like you know to plant your feet and ignore new information and not be willing to change and not be opinions change each and every day and that's what we do on the show I'd like to think we have a nuanced conversation about games and game development and game playing like right now this was a horrible way to show it but let's see what happens in the fall when it launches I'm not saying like it's the you know the devil but I would there's been a bunch of super chats talking about I want to know how artists feel about this that is the ding ding ding I would love that I would love to hear from more artists out there like no no I work at Bethesda on Starfield and yeah we didn't get this, but we're excited to because X, Y, and Z.

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44:54Ark Raiders, comma, the finals dev Embark Studios parts ways with co-founder following misconduct allegations. This is the one, the only, KFGD 2025 award winner Rebecca Valentine at IGN.com. Embark Studios, the developer behind Arc Raiders and the finals, has quote-unquote mutually agreed to part ways with co-founder and CCO, Rob, and I'm going to say Runeson. You agree? Runeson. That looks pretty good to me. Got it. Following public allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a popular The Final streamer, as well as an external legal investigation that Embark claims, quote, did not substantiate and quote the allegations.

45:34A lot of positivity on the news today. It's always good on Games Daily. these allegations shared by an anonymous person first arose about a month ago via the final streamer i'm gonna say belize who read them on stream the anonymous allegations were later distributed via google docs in various the final social communities in summary the anonymous person claims that they were in contact with a popular female streamer of the finals who allegedly spoke to them frequently about engaging in a romantic and sexual relationship with runeson the anonymous accuser says the female streamer reported becoming increasingly uncomfortable with runeson's requests for sexual conversations and favors as well as concerned about the potential conflict of interest they presented but felt they could not push back due to becoming financially dependent on runeson's promotion of her streams the anonymous accuser claims they eventually went to embark community lead to report the behavior but was not made aware of any action being taken to investigate at a time in response embark says it has parted ways with runeson here is embark's full statement quote our leadership team was recently made aware of allegations against an embark employee we take these matters seriously and as part of our process for addressing any types of allegations we immediately hired a law firm to conduct an external investigation the investigation did not substantiate the allegations but we found the situation unsustainable and mutually agreed to part ways with Rob and quote, what the fuck does that mean?

47:01Yo, Andy, the allegation, we couldn't substantiate the allegations,

47:04Andy Cortez:but the situation is unsustainable. We, what the fuck does that mean? We didn't have enough info, but things are great. The DMS were like alluding to, but they weren't, but we couldn't substantiate, but it's enough. What the fuck? Speak plainly. This is Dr. Disrespect splitting ways with his game studio. And then just being like, we think it's better. And then everybody going, yeah, but come on. You guys don't actually know what happened. It's like, well, we know why they fucking split ways. We know why this happened. You know, these allegations come at the same time as another similar controversy, controversy, where multiple male, the finals, e-sports players have been accused of inappropriate behavior towards women in the community.

47:49In a discord statement from one month ago, Embark announced it would be pausing its current outbound e-sports efforts while it underwent an evaluation and review of its competitive system. Quote, We have reviewed these concerns carefully, including with its external legal counsel, and are confident that at this time, our decisions and actions have been appropriate

48:06Andy Cortez:and within the scope of our responsibilities as a publisher and organization. I'm trying not to burp. Got to burp. You know what I mean? I felt it. We take these matters seriously. I was like, it's like Sonic, like do, do, do, do, do, do. I just drowned. I couldn't get out of it. First off, obviously, I kind of funny can't condemn people making each other uncomfortable and taking advantage of people enough. That's always going to be our statement on these matters, right? So fuck abusing people and abusing your power X, Y, and Z. Secondly, the finals is still going. It is big enough to have this fucking in the e-sports community and a community in general.

48:43Andy Cortez:I, that's a game gone. Forgot all about the finals. Yeah. That was a fucking thing. No, I mean, Embark was still doing well on development, I think. I think it's still going. But yeah, awful news. Like this is, it's again, just kind of perfectly convenient that we didn't really find anything, but we still think it's best. Yo, we found no, no misgivings, no problems, but we also don't think it's sustainable that he stays. Yeah. That's, that's the part that kind of just, you know, as you're writing that at the company, you hope that people just kind of gloss over it and like, just, you ignore the rest of it, but that's the part that really kind of makes you go, okay, well, you're saying it without saying it, allegedly, of course.

49:25But yeah, awful news. More awful news of men in power taking advantage of these situations and of their position. In an unsustainable way. Yeah.

49:35Andy Cortez:Not in an illegal way, in an unsustainable way. Oh, right, of course. I'm making fun of them. You got to use the wording. Yeah, you have to use the right wording. Everybody, don't be fucking dicks to each other. How about that? Don't be a dickhead. Let's finally get to some good news, which we will go through quickly in brief because Gamescast is all about it. Number three, Starfield is getting three big updates and coming to PlayStation 5. I'm reading from Bethesda's blog. Bethesda's Game Studios is excited to announce that Starfield is coming to PlayStation 5 on April 7th. The PlayStation 5 launch arrives in tandem with Terran Armada and Free Lanes, Starfield's next major content drops, releasing on all platforms on April 7th.

50:12Starfield on PlayStation 5 takes advantage of the console hardware integrating with light bar adaptive triggers touchpad and more on the PlayStation 5 Pro players can select a pro performance mode to prioritize a higher target FPS or select pro visual mode Starfield's base edition will be available on all platforms for 50 bucks welcoming even more players in the universe back into this DLC you're talking about right Terran Armada introduces a new quest line across the settled systems with new characters locations enemies quests systems and rewards players get the chance to shape the future of humanity's humanity in space as they combat the incursions of the terran armada's robotic forces in this brand new story dlc that i

50:52Andy Cortez:believe i need to check my notes for game scouts cost ten dollars off the creation shop god i it would be i really i really fucked up and not taking advantage of just like kind of the news ahead of time and making like a fake trailer where there's a person aboard the ship and they got one of them weird NVIDIA DLSS 5 faces and they're like something's off about that I don't think he's a human, he's a real person he's a Terran, Free Lanes is a free update that adds significant new features and systems designed to deepen the core Starfield experience for both new and returning players, most significantly opening up interplanetary travel within systems with this update, players can use cruise mode to travel from planet to planet within a star system where they'll experience frequent encounters and activities and spend some quality time on their ship with their crew, and then if that wasn't enough for you trackers alliance in 2024 the trackers alliance was introduced to starfield to give players even more options to experience the settled systems as a bounty hunter bethesda continues to build on the trackers alliance experience with five new tracker alliance adventures all available to play right now this update expands the bounty hunter experience with new targets contracts and rewards players who previously purchased the original trackers alliance content will receive these new adventures for free new players can access the complete set for 700 creation credits kevin Can I get the one?

52:12With Starfield, Tracker's Alliance, and what's the other one? Terran Armada, and Free Lanes. With Starfield, Terran Armada, Free Lanes, and the Starfield Alliance, there has never been a better time to hop in to Starfield. Crushed it. Thank you so much. I, of course, went to Bethesda and saw all of this, talked to Todd, interviewed Tim over there who's in charge of it all, not our Tim, Tim Lamb.

52:36Andy Cortez:that will be your games cast right after this Michael Heim from IGN's coming in to shoot the shit with me about it and then I have a 20 minute interview with Tim Lane to talk all about this because I love Starfield so much what a day for you if you want even more about this I did a 20 minute Gregway today talking about what I'm going to do with Becky Lynch my Starfield character going forward you champing at the bit for this you're stuck Tracker's Alliance I made sure is installed over there so as soon as I'm done with my shows today and go get this because they got a mantis bounty there's another motherfucker pretending to be the Mantis, I'm going to kill this kid.

53:07Chat, um, I was just going to do something awful that I was going to piss off Kevin, but I'm going to do it anyway. Chat, if you want to watch Greg play this instead of me and Nick play Call of Duty, we're going to put a poll up and you guys decide. Kevin, I love that. I don't care. Just like the whole setup of it. That's simple enough, right? I don't even know if we downloaded the right Call of Duty. I assure you it's downloaded by my Razorblade 2016. It's got Starfield, Crackers, Alliance. Let's go. Let's go. As we're getting close to KFGD starting, Kevin's like, Andy, what do I install? I was like, I think it's just Call of Duty, the main thing.

53:48270 fucking gigs? No, no, no. 800 gigs. How much? It was like, no, no, no. I think it was 750 gigs. It was insane. No, you gotta like, uncheck the right ones. Okay, is it Warzone? I think it is. Why isn't Mike here? Mike's sick.

54:07Andy Cortez:Mike's sick. It's just been a whole thing this morning. How do you do a poll? No, it's happening. Somebody put it up. Okay, great. Let's just do it. Let's just give it to them. They want it so bad. I told you they'd want it more. Chad, vote for it. For God's sakes, please vote for it. I also got to play more Cribs and Deserts. Yeah, me too. But I'll take it. I mean, I'm going to play this no matter what. Starfield, baby. So you are like, this is... Let's talk about it in GameCast. Saving Grace. We got Michael there. Well, Saving Grace, I already like Starfield. It's very much what Todd said on Gamescast.

54:33Andy Cortez:If you like Starfield, you're going to like this. If you thought Starfield sucked, you ain't going to like it. Like, it's more Starfield. So are you in or are you out? They did a bunch of quality of life that we'll jump into and have a big conversation about. But we'll do that. Mike couldn't even download the correct one on his own personal PC. Number four on the Roper Report. We have some season three casting news for The Last of Us. This is Rosie over at Deadline. HBO's The Last of Us is gearing up for a major season three and possibly its last. with promotions of Ariela Bearer, Tati Gabrielle and Spencer Lord, as well as the official editions of Jason Ritter and Patrick Wilson, of course, from the Cuckoo Universe in reoccurring roles.

55:14You gotta put your hand on my shoulder whenever you do that.

55:16Andy Cortez:Well, you're too far away now. But yeah, you see, of course, they're talking about, yeah, obviously Patrick Wilson, Jason Ritter, who you probably know, and they were at the top of the thing. And then here, of course, they're talking about, yes, Mel, Nora, and Owen are all becoming reoccurring stars since obviously this is going to be an Abby season. So congratulations to him. That's exciting. I didn't finish season two. You'll let you never know how it ends. Damn. Damn. Number five on the Roper Report. We have updates for the Switch and the PlayStation portal. Let's start with the Switch 2. A whole bunch of stuff, but the important bits are say you can save notes about your friends on your friends list.

55:50Andy Cortez:Okay. Andy, don't trust him. I'm going to keep some stuff there for you. New game chat features, new features for airplane mode, but then... That's going to be great whenever somebody picks up my Switch like in a post-apocalyptic world. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. But here's the biggest one. Handheld mode boost. Handheld mode boost will cause compatible Switch software to run as if it was in TV mode. So certain functionality may be affected. Please see the on-device description for more details. This shit rocks. That's really cool. I did it yesterday. Pokemon Arceus. Hold on one second. Cole! Come here, Cole.

56:24I'm sure they work here. Whoever you're barking at works here. Come here, Cole.

56:29Andy Cortez:all right the wiener dog's here today he's pissed off out there in order to activate you go into settings then like or system settings and then you go to like system at the very very bottom and then you got to go to like some weird option near the bottom yeah because they know it's gonna be a battery more yeah and there you have to you have to tap it on because it'll say like hey doing this means that it's going to consume more battery and more power but i ran astral train on it last night now unfortunately games are still locked at 30 that It doesn't change how the game runs. But when it is running Astral Chain was in 1080p, it looks super sharp.

57:04That's Nick. Pokemon Arceus looks super sharp. Oh, yeah. You know, it's still 30 frames per second, but it's like super crisp and it looks awesome. It doesn't look super muddy. Hell yeah.

57:13Andy Cortez:That's great. I love that. Great update. Very cool. Oh, look at this. Starfield run away with 71 % of the vote. Wow. Here we go, everybody. Let's go after this Mantis pretender, you and me. Oh, you're barking at Michael Hyam? no no we love michael uh playstation portal update adds a 1080p high quality mode and refined streaming experience here's what's new this is vicky blake at ign sony said it's continuing to evolve its playstation portal remote player with a new system software update introducing improvements designed to quote deliver high visual fidelity smoother interactions and a more seamless overall experience the update which is rolling out now uh comes as sony announced its cloud streaming monthly users are up 162 percent year over year over 50 percent of portal users also use uh or i'm sorry are also playstation plus premium subscribers a stat sony claim shows quote a growing engagement with the cloud experience so the three bullet points here 1080p high quality mode players can now select 1080p high quality mode uh during remote play and cloud streaming uh refined cloud streaming experience and a smoothing smoother onboarding experience i was to see my portal last night.

58:20Wow. Always a fun time.

58:21Andy Cortez:Some updates are always great. They are. But sometimes these updates like Tracker's Alliance, they're just too dang big. Yeah. And if I wanted something smaller, say what came to the tiniest news I need to know about shops, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the Weed News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Number six, Weed News. Noble reports, My Little Puppy is coming to PlayStation 5 alongside the Nintendo Switch version on May 29th. Of course, it's already on PC, and I have it installed on my ROG Ally, but I'll probably wait for my Switch. Beyond Words is launching April 9th on Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

59:01Super Metroid's official soundtrack is now available on Nintendo Music. Gamatsu reports that IO Interactive ends Mind's Eye Publishing collaboration. Damn.

59:09Andy Cortez:Build a Rocket Boy to assume publishing responsibilities going forward. Unfortunate. Aw, nuts about that one. Dang. And then, kind of funny best friend and Stella's boyfriend Joel has put out a game dice with death I'm sorry dice with death is a dice building roguelite unfortunately you have already died fortunately death is up for some friendly competition collect new dice and relics create damage stacking combos and even cheat death himself to emerge victorious check that out on steam everybody dice with death oh also shout out to Mike Gabori. Oh, yeah. Mike Gabori with his game Monster Battler Rush.

59:51Fuck, I forgot the name of it. I really choked that shit, man. I'm so sorry. I threw up that three-point. I just bricked. I appreciate it. You got time to find it? It's a boss Monster Rush Battler game. Obviously, it's like one of the 30 festivals that Steam rolls every year. I'll look for it right here.

1:00:11Andy Cortez:Indie spotlights. I'm glad you're saying it. I've been saying it for a long time. I'll look for it right here. All right, anyways, that's it for WeNews. Some of the super chats to get through. Again, so many people came in and talked, and I think I got through a lot of them. Not all of them, by any stress of imagination. We love you. But Hatch says with the super chat, Andy, listen up for one second, okay? Uh-huh. Started this tiny game last night that I haven't heard anyone talking about. Certainly nobody, kind of funny. It's called The King is Watching and stayed up way too late. What a game.

1:00:37Andy Cortez:Seriously, though, you undersold it, Andy. Okay, fuck you, first off. and I know you're having a little go at me but that's why I was fist pumping earlier. I read that Super Chat. I'm very, very excited. The people are listening and the king is watching. All right? Yeah. New DLC just came out. Loads more content. Again, this game came out. Did you know that? Not an early access game. I didn't know that. That game stayed off in my top 10 until Chad told me the night before, hey, this game's out. It's not just early access. Like, oh, damn. You hate to see that. You got about 80 hours or 100 some hours in it.

1:01:10King is watching go to, and now they got DLC, right? Yeah. Was it an update? Well, they've had plenty of DLCs, but now like their first, like another big gigantic, you know, addition just came out. Okay. A few more super chats that weren't about NVIDIA and anger. Krogan clinician said enough of Greg, this and Greg that he ain't no Andy. We need an Andy vlog. Let's eat room tour and perhaps a body pillow. It's, it's funny you bring that up. I was just replying to an Instagram story from friend of the show, Alana Pierce where she was like, I'm doing a room tour. And I replied like I've said many times no amount of money in the world do it for Greg Wainmore.

1:01:49Fuck no. Let me come over to your room. Fuck no. We'll wear gloves. It's embarrassing. I'm just embarrassed. So what? No amount of money. No amount of money. Thank you for the offer.

1:02:02Andy Cortez:Chris Babb says election day today. That's why there's no school. This is America. We don't do that. The game is called Rogue Monster Rush. from Mike Gabori. Rogue Monster Rush. And it's like a little tower defense thing, but you're also gathering Pokemon. Yeah, of course. Put them on the floor, battling. Hello? Destroying things. Yes, is there school today? Thank you so much. Yeah, see, no, there's school today. I called Tim's alma mater Law High School. White House? No, America, we ain't giving you the day off of work. We ain't giving you the day off of school to go vote what are you talking about democracy take it up with your employer Gondor's Condor says Irish film suggestion for all song of the sea I always watch Darby O 'Gill and the little people you ever watch that one song of the sea isn't that the song of the deep sword of the sea no sword of the sea turnabout Adam says happy Paddy's day from north of Ireland the north of Ireland love kind of funny my birthday is the 12th of July very fortunate if you know you know I don't know I assume it's something Irish that I have to where it went.

1:03:09Fourth of July?

1:03:10Andy Cortez:No, the 12th. Oh. 12th of July. It's already gone. And then our final one comes from Dustin who says, birthday tax for my son and I. My son Theoden turns one on Sunday and I turn 35 today. Love you guys. Jesus Christ. I nailed that. Theoden. What did I say? I said Theoden. Theoden. Here's what I'll say. Bad name. You got there with the first four letters. Theo. We should have called him Theo. We should have named him Theo. God. Theo. It's going to, I'll tell you this right now. Can I get the one Kevin? I hope. Oh God. Dustin, it's me, Greg Miller. Nobody has the day off for St. Patrick's day and or the election, but what they do have is the ability to go to their local city hall and change their son's name from Theo din to Theo.

1:03:54Andy Cortez:Cause then you could just be like Theo Huxtable, Malcolm, Jamal Warner, rest in peace. We'll never forget. Now for wrath. Now for ruin and the red Don. Stay it in King. I haven't talked enough about Starfield. So it's time to get to games cast everybody. This has been another episode of kind of funny games daily. We love you. We appreciate you. Thanks for your watching. Thanks for hanging out. And thanks for having a bunch of good super chats in there. Like I said, games cast is up next. It's me and Michael. I'm having a very intimate Starfield discussion about everything we saw at Bethesda. When we went there last week, talking about all the DLC and watching a bunch of videos and having a great time.

1:04:32Andy Cortez:If you want to be a part of that, what, what large hog gamers has bro. Donating. He got his bloodline roasted. keep watching apparently i'm streaming starfield again after the kind of funny podcast which i'm super stoked about lots of good stuff happening here so of course if you're watching live nowhere to go unless you're on youtube watching live you have to click to the different videos if you're watching or listening later come on over to youtube.com slash kind of funny games like subscribe share catch all of our stuff but most importantly go pick up a kind of funny membership patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games apple spotify you give us ten and Kevin give me the one you give us$10 and you support this dog who's got this whole skin condition thing he's allergic to something we gotta keep taking him to the vet alright you think that's cheap you think that's cheap Portillo he hit all the medical expenses after 10 that's when the legs started breaking and all that stuff I got this one three years old like a rotten pumpkin in my arms alright don't make me put this dog down go to patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com apple spotify am I tuning tomorrow to find out.

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